You can destroy a hard drive by wiping its contents and disassembling its parts for ultimate security.

A typical home desktop computer or laptop hard drive can contain your social security number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and website logins and passwords. This information can remain ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...

Question : I need to dispose of my old computer but I’m told that I need to have all of my data removed. We’ve deleted what we can but apparently there is still retrievable data on the hard drive ?

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...